Unusual offshore occurrence of an American Alligator

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 533-536

  Elsey, Ruth M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE;

EID: 33644584782     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2005)004[0533:UOOOAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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